Abraham Lincoln

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"I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow."	Anti-God, Attitude
"I am struggling to maintain the government, not to overthrow it. I am struggling especially to prevent others from overthrowing it."	Government
"I believe it is an established maxim in morals that he who makes an assertion without knowing whether it is true or false is guilty of falsehood, and the accidental truth of the assertion does not justify or excuse him."	Honesty, Knowledge, Lies
"I believe, if we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those of any other class. There seems ever to have been a proneness in the brilliant and warm-blooded to fall into this vice."	Age, Art, Habits
"I could as easily bail out the Potomac River with a teaspoon as attend to all the details of the army."	Military
"I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside me."	Ambition, Art, Desires
"I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be."	Knowledge, Wisdom
"I don't like that man. I must get to know him better."	Anti-God, Attitude
"I don't think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday."	Knowledge, Men, Time
"I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go."	Prayer
"I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go. My own wisdom, and that of all about me seemed insufficient for the day."	Change, Knowledge, Men
"I know that the LORD is always on the side of the right. But it is my constant anxiety and prayer that I and this nation should be on the LORD'S side."	God
"I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him."	America
"I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him."	Quotations
"I think very much of the people, as an old friend said he thought of woman. He said when he lost his first wife, who had been a great help to him in his business, he thought he was ruined-that he could never find another to fill her place. At length, however, he married another, who he found did quite as well as the first, and that his opinion now was that any woman would do well who was well done by. So I think of the whole people of this nation-they will ever do well if well done by. We will try to do well by them in all parts of the country, North and South, with entire confidence that all will be well with all of us."	America
"I will study and get ready, and perhaps my chance will come."	Reading
"If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of free men we must live through all time, or die by suicide."	Death, Destruction, Freedom
"If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my axe."	Miscellaneous
"If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business."	Reading, Sin
"If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?"	Miscellaneous
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Ambition	America	Anti-God
Anti-Religion	Argument	Art
Attitude	Birth	Books
Change	Character	Comedy
Confidence	Conflict	Death
Democracy	Desires	Destruction
Difficulty	Doubt	Dreams
Economics	Education	Effort
Equality	Evil	Experience
Failure	Faith	Fear
Freedom	Friends	Friendship
God	Government	Habits
Happiness	Help	History
Honesty	Humor	Insults
Joy	Knowledge	Laughter
Law	Laws	Liberty
Lies	Life	Love
Men	Military	Miscellaneous
Mistakes	Monarchy	Money
Patriotism	Power	Prayer
Presidency	Quotations	Reading
Responsibility	School	Sin
Strength	Stupidity	Success
Teaching	Time	Truth
Violence	Virtue	Wants
War	Wisdom